Button-chute



(No Modal.)

0. J. BROSNAN.

BUTTON CHUTE.

Patnted Apr. 15, 1890.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORNELIUS J. BROSNAN, OF SPRINGFIELD, ASSIGNOR TO THE PENINSULAR NOVELTYCOMFANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTbN-CHUTE.

SPECIFICATION fornfing part of Letters Patent No. 425,928, dated April 15, 1890.

Application filerl August 6, 1887. Serial No. 246,293. (No modal.)

T au whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS J. BROSNAN, of Springfield, county cf Hampden, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Raceways or Guides for Button-Setting Tools, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying draw: ings, is a specification, iike letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to raceways or guides for button-setting tools or machines, the main object of which is to provide for the proper delivery of fasteners with their connected buttons, one at a time, to the button-setting I5 devices of such' tools or machines. To this end I provide a raceway or guide cf pecular construction, the essential pnrpose of which is to receivea fastener with its connected button,,or a succession of fasteners with their connected buttons, and properly guide it or them in succession to the button-setting devices of button-sctting tools or machines, and by the construction of which the said fastener or fasteners Wll be prevented from turning about or becoming displaced therein.

My invention consists, primarily, of what I here term for convenience a raceway or guide, prererably formed from sheet metal, and havin g an opening to receive the body or main portion of the fastener, and a slot to receive the shank-eye of the button, which may be connected with the fastener, and two grooves to receive the legs or points of the fastener, substantiaily as hereinafter fully de- 3 5 scribed, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a raceway embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a section thefeof on line 00 00', Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows one form of fastener which in ay be employed with the raceway or guide shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows said fastener with connected button in the raceway or guide. Fig. 5 is-a modification to be referred to; and Fig. 6 is a modification showing the slot for the eye of the button cientra1ly disposed in the raceway, as in the case where a common staple-fastener is to be guided in said raceway.

The raceway or guide A, prefcrably struck np froni sheet metal, is provided with an opening a to receive the body or main portion of the fastener to be contained therein, a slot a in one side thereof to receive the shank-eye of the button to be connected with the fastener of the style or kindfor which the raceway or guide may be specially designcd, and v with two grooves a a in the side of the raceway or guide opposite that having the slot a, to receive the legs or points of the fastener and prevent the said fastner from turning about or becoming displaced in the-said raceway or guide. A v

In Fig. 1 I have shown the raceway or guide A as provided at one endwith a retaining spring b to properly hold the raceway or guide to the connecting part of the buttonsetting machine with which it may be employed; but I do not here wish to be understood as limiting mysclf to the exact means shown with Which to secure it in place in the button-setting machine employing the same, since it is clear that the same may be varied or changed without departing from the spirit of my invention. Further, in said Fig. 1 I have shown the end opposite that having the retaining spring b sealed or closed, with an end plate 0 soldered thereto to act as a stiffener and keep the form of the raceway or guide and the size of the slot a intact. In this case-that is, where the upper end of the raceway or guide is sealedthe fasteners with their connected buttons are fed nto said raceway or guide at its bottom end, and when properly filled it is then secured by the spring.plate b to the machine with which it is to be employed.

It Will be noticed from an inspection of Fig. 2 that in the present instance, where the race way or guide is formed from sheet metal, the tWo grooves a a are in reality formed by striking in the riblike portion or saddle d. In this particular instance the raceway or guide is especially adapted to receiVe and guide the style of fastener shown in Fig. 3, which is one of WelLknown construction, and the manner in which that fastcner with its attached button is placed in the said raceway or guide is shown in Fig. 4.

It will be noticed that to accommodate this fastener the slot a. is placed to one side of the center lime (indicated by the dotted lines y y;) but with other forms of fasteners the position of the slot may be varied to suit.

I donot wish the seope of my invention to be limited to the exact construction shown, or by whatever terms I have used to designate the same, sinoe the form and size may be varied in many respects t adapt it to the use therewith of various styles of fasteners, and there-arcmany terms which may be used to designate the device embodying said invenfion.

Fig. shows a raceway or guide in which the plate 0 is dispensed with to allow the fasteners to be fed therein from either end of the said raccway or guide.

Although the raceway or guide herein shown and describcd is often 'employed in machines or tools for setting buttons in snob manner, that the side or wall thereof containing the slot a is disposed nppermost and at other cimes nndermost, as compared with that wali or portion having the groovcs a a", yet for identification and convenicnce the wall haVing the slot a may be, and 110W is, called the top of the raceway and that wall or portion having the grooves a a the bottom of said raceway.

As shown in the drawings, the slot a is'c'nt 1 or made entirely in the top of the raceway and is independent of its side walls or portions, and necessarily s0 00 adapt it as a guide or raceivay for bntton-fastcners carrying shank-eye buttons.

'I am aware of the patent to II.- C. Brad- 4 ford, No. 124,029, granted Febrnary 27, 1872,

which shows a raceway or guide for buttonhooks, and I make no claim [0 anything therein set forth.

1. A raceway or chute for fasteners carryin g eye-shank buttons, having a top, bottom, and two side walls, the said side walls being snbstantially nniform in height, the top wal1 having a slot cxtending lengthwise of the raceway and intermediate of said side walls, and the bottom having an intcriorly-projecting rib or saddlc, leaving a channel at each side thereof for the legs of the fastener, and a space aboVe said saddle and beneath the slotted top t0 accommodate the shakeye of the button, substantially as and for the purpose set'forth.

2. A button-chnte having bottom and side walls and a slotted top, the bottom being strnck up to form a saddle, leaving a channel at each side for the legs of the fastener, and a space above thesaddle and bencath the slotted top for the shank of the button, substantiafly as described.

3. A onepiece sheet-metai button-chute having closed bottom and.side walIs, a S1013- ted top, the bottom being struck np to form a saddlc, leaving a channel at eah side thereof for the legs of the fastener, and a space above the saddie and below the slottcd top to accommodate the shank-eye Of the bntton,-substantially as. desoribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speoification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CORNELIUS J. BROSNAN.

Witnesscs:

BERNICE J. NOYES, C. M, CONE. A 

